Lapsed May 2, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 23, 2029
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Stripe, Inc.
Filed Aug 3, 2015 as application 14/816,563 · Granted May 2, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed May 2, 2025
2009
2029
Clock starts
Dec 23, 2009
Dec 23, 2009
No longer in force
May 2, 2025
May 2, 2025
Granted
May 2, 2017
May 2, 2017
Term would have run to
Dec 23, 2029
Dec 23, 2029
base term
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 14, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 14, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,098,723, to Dec 23, 2029. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
9
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Dec 23, 2029: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. Confidence: High. from the record
How we calculated this date
One row per rule, each showing its own input and what it did to the date. A step we could not verify says so instead of resolving itself.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Dec 23, 2009, when application 12/645,532, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 3, 2015) | Dec 23, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,098,723) | resolves to Dec 23, 2029, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed May 2, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 2, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,265,658 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| US 9,098,723 | In force Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
| US 9,763,048 | In force May 2033 | May 2033 |
| Application 12/860,252 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,588,819 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| US 9,338,601 | In force Oct 2029 | Oct 2029 |
| US 9,641,393 | this patent May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 9,674,665 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2025 | Jun 2025 |
8 of 9 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Assignments
Assignment documents as recorded at the USPTO, oldest first, with the reel and frame each was recorded at. A recorded assignment is a filed document, not a statement of current ownership, and the absence of a later one is not evidence that the last one still stands.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 2015 Reel 36725, frame 878 | Petersen, Steven L.; Curtis, Scott; Jennings, Kenneth | Kota Enterprises, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 5, 2015 Reel 36725, frame 905 | Kota Enterprises, LLC | Waldeck Technology, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 13, 2017 Reel 44391, frame 407 | Concert Debt, LLC | Waldeck Technology, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Dec 13, 2017 Reel 44391, frame 438 | Concert Debt, LLC | Concert Technology Corporation | Release of Security Interest |
| Jan 11, 2018 Reel 44591, frame 775 | Concert Debt, LLC | Concert Technology Corporation | Release of Security Interest |
| Jan 11, 2018 Reel 44591, frame 845 | Concert Debt, LLC | Waldeck Technology, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Feb 28, 2018 Reel 45061, frame 144 | Waldeck Technology, LLC | IP3 2017, Series 200 of Allied Security Trust I | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 16, 2019 Reel 48082, frame 767 | IP3 2017, Series 200 of Allied Security Trust I | Cria, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 2, 2021 Reel 57044, frame 753 | Cria, Inc. | Stripe, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,098,723, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2017 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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